Magdeline Aagard
Dr. Aagard has been in higher education since 2002 and joined Walden in November, 2013 as contributing faculty. She became core faculty in 2015, and in 2019 she was promoted to senior core faculty, then Academic Coordinator for Residencies. She mentors dissertation students as a Chair and had the good fortune to work with a student who won the Outstanding Dissertation Award for her study on "A Qualitative Analysis of Migrant Women Farmworkers’ Perceptions of Maternal Care Management."
Dr. Aagard's undergraduate degrees are in nursing and public health nursing. Her graduate degrees are in business, focusing on healthcare administration and her doctorate is in educational leadership. Dr. Aagard's dissertation was focused on the successful implementation of Western healthcare programs in indigenous cultures in Tanzania.
Dr. Aagard's experience and expertise focus on transcultural care, community based primary care, nursing leadership and compassion in nursing, and homelessness. She developed a community assessment module for a global health program in Amsterdam with colleagues at the Hogeschool von Amsterdam, where she was a visiting lecturer for 8 years. She has also taught in Liberia, and coordinated graduate nursing student experiences in Namibia, Bolivia, and on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in SD. Dr. Aagard has presented nationally and internationally and published from her research on an international collaborative study on the enactment of compassion by nursing and midwifery leaders, barriers to adult access to cancer care in the Northern Zone of Tanzania, and wellbeing of people experiencing homelessness.
Dr. Aagard is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society and has served as a grant reviewer and as the local chapter President. She is a member of APHA's international health interest group. She also serves as a peer reviewer for the International Council of Nurses journal and ORCID journal reviewers.
Courses Taught
HLTH 8551 - Preparing for the Dissertation
PUBH 9000 - Dissertation
Education
EdD, University of St. Thomas
Master's in Business, University of St. Thomas
BA, Augustana College
Public Service
Zeta Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International, Board of Directors - MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis Uptown Rotary, Member - MINNEAPOLIS
Foundation for Cancer Care in Tanzania, Volunteer -
Awards / Honors
Bernard L. Turner Award, Walden University, 2015
Lilly Faculty Development Grant, Augsburg College, 2009
Publications
Aagard, M. C., Muhirwe, L. (2023). Completion of four or more anc visits among women of reproductive age in a rural district in Uganda: a quantitative study on the role of service-level factors. BMC Health Services Research
Aagard, M. C., Dobrzycka, A., Zheleva, B., Rajasekhar, V., Menon, S., Gopakumar, V. (2023). Understanding the impact of clinical and leadership development activities for pediatric cardiac nurses in India. Annals of Pediatric Cardiology
Aagard, M., Irena, P., A, Z., Christina, K., Sheila, A. (2016). International study of nurses’ views and experiences of compassion. International Nursing Review
Aagard, M., Papadopolous, I., G, T., Sheila, A. (2015). Exploring Nurses’ Meaning and Experiences of Compassion: An International Online Survey Involving 15 Countries. Journal of Transcultural Nursing
Aagard, M., Irena, P., Jessica, B. (2018). Exploring compassion in nursing: US qualitative research results from the international research study. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
Mshana, H. Y., Cullen, C., Aagard, M. Community Private-Pubic Partnership Synergy. Journal of Social Change
Aagard, M., Valerie, H., Nathan, R., Ronald, R. (2016). Adopting Innovative Cardiovascular Models to Succeed Under Value Based Care. Physician Leadership Journal
Aagard, M. (2009). Cardiac Care Teams: A Collaborative Practice Model with Non-Physician Providers. AAMA Executive Online
Aagard, M. (2009). A Brighter Future. Advance for Long-Term Care Management
Aagard, M. (2009). Nursing Bricolage in Twenty-first Century Tanzania: How Two Healthcare Programs Incorporated Tribal Culture, Western Medicine and Evangelism.
Presentations
Aagard, M. C. (2021). Findings of the CHL Nursing Leadership Development Activities: PCSI Pediatric Cardiac Track. Pediatric Cardiac Society of India
Aagard, M. (2015). Transforming the Health Care Workforce in Liberia through Innovative Nursing Education, Leadership and Exemplars from the Ebola Epidemic. Sigma Theta Tau International
Aagard, M. (2017). Exploring compassion in nursing: US qualitative research results from the international research study. International Council of Nurses
Aagard, M. (2017). Assuring Access to Cancer Care in Tanzania: Developing the Cancer Care Center in the Kilimanjaro Region. International Council of Nurses
Aagard, M. (2016). Empowering the Maasai in Northern Tanzania to Improve their Health. Walden University